NS0-526 Network Appliance NCIE-DP Specialist Certification Online Prep Questions

1. You need to restore a file from yesterday's backup. You know that a Snapshot copy is in place on the volume where the data is stored. Other users are notcomplaining about lost or corrupt data on the volume.

All users are running Windows 7 on desktop computers.

How would you recover the file quickly without disrupting other users' data?

2. Which two NetApp products reduce the backup time and createa consistent backup for a primary Oracle target? (Choose two.)

3. Your customer wants to implement a mirroring solution between two NetApp controllers.

Which solution would you recommend tothe customer?

4. The customer has experienced a disaster at their primary data center. You have implemented a SnapMirror relationship to meet their needs. You have performed the steps to make the destination volume read/write accessible to the clients.

Which three actions should your considerdoing while the customer makes the necessary repairs to their data center? (Choose three.)

5. What are two capabilities enabled by Snapshot copies? (Choose two.)

6. A client is planning to configure a SnapMirror relationship between two sites. Normally their ISP provides network throughput of 100 Mbps; however, they can arrange to have this burst to 1 Gbps for a period of time at an additional cost.

Their intention is to back up 400 GB of Snapshot data each day using the burst option to keep the replication time to a minimum.

In this scenario, how much burst time do they need to purchase?

7. In a clustered Data ONTAP environment, the customer is using SnapVault to back up data from aprimary to a secondary cluster.

Policies, Resource Pools, and Storage Efficiency are configured in OnCommand Unified Manager 6. OnCommand Workflow Automation takes care of the secondary provisioning. The customer wants to update the SnapMirror Policy witha custom Snapshot copy label.

What should be done to make sure that the Snapshot copies will be transferred to the secondary cluster?

8. Your customer is concerned that his volume might run out of space.

Which two volume command options would be used to resolve this problem? (Choose two.)

9. You wantto generate performance-related reports and alerts using the OnCommand Unified Manager 6.x server.

Which two additional tasks must be completed to enable these features? (Choose two.)

10. You have a network outage that affects client access to site

You need to temporarily reverse the SnapMirror relationship of a volume to serve data from site B.

Which two steps must you perform first? (Choose two.)

11. You must back up and replicate a Microsoft SQL server using SnapProtect in your clustered Data ONTAP environment.

Which three components must be correctly installed and configured? (Choose three.)

12. You want to configurea SnapMirror transfer throttle to consume less network bandwidth.

In the output of the snapmirror show command, which three statistics would you use? (Choose three.)

13. You have a SnapVault backup from your primary site to your secondary site with a LUN in the volume. In this scenario, what is transferred?

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14. How are the FC-VI links cabled in MetroCluster for ONTAP?

15. You want to provide your team with a SnapProtect report that shows how many backups succeeded, were delayed, and failed over the last 30 days. You also want detailed information about the jobs, agents, and clients.

WhichCommCell report provides the necessary information?

16. Click the Exhibit button on the right.





You have an AFF A300 controller with four volumes in the aggregate that is shown in the exhibit. You replicate all four volumes to one aggregate on a FAS8200 controller in a different cluster.

Referring to the exhibit, what are the storage efficiency savings on the destination FAS8200?

17. A customeris running clustered Data ONTAP and wants to restore 15 files from a secondary SnapVault destination. The customer uses the command snapmirror restore - file-list.

Which two statements are true about this operation? (Choose two.)

18. Network bandwidth between your the primary and secondary sites is limited. You believe that data compression combined with volume SnapMirror would help solve this problem.

In this scenario, which statement is correct?

19. A customer is using SnapVault to backup Snapshot copies from a primary volume to a secondary volume on a clustered Data ONTAP system.

The retention on the secondary volumes must be 90 days. Volume autosize andSnapShotAutoDelete have been enabled for all secondary volumes.

Which two settings will satisfy this requirement? (Choose two.)

20. You have deployed a 4-node fabric MetroClusterconfiguration for cross-site disaster-recovery protection.

In this scenario, which two statements are correct for an automatic unplanned switchover (AUSO) operation? (Choose two.)

21. What are two reasons why thestatus of the SnapMirror relationship is showing ~Healthy: false~? (Choose two.)

22. You configured a SnapMirror relationship with a default policy for the daily mirroring of a volume which contains financial data. Although the data is critical, it only changes on a monthly basis.

Using On Command System Manager, whichtwo actions would change the frequency of the SnapMirror updates? (Choose two.)

23. Your customer wants to replicate data between two NetApp clusters in different data centers.

Which two actions must be performed to accomplish this task? (Choose two.)

24. Click the Exhibit button.

cluster2::>snapmirror show Cinstance

Source Path: svm1:svm1_vol3

Destination Path: svm1_2:svm1_2_vol2

Relationship Type: DP

Relationship Group Type: none

SnapMirror Schedule: 5min

SnapMirror Policy Type: async-mirror

SnapMirror Policy: DPDefault

Tries Limit: -

Throttle (KB/sec): unlimited

Mirror State: Snapmirrored

Relationship Status: Idle

Last Transfer Type: update

Last Transfer Error: -

Last Transfer Size: 72 KB

Last Transfer Network Compression Ratio: 1:1

Last Transfer Duration: 0:0:2

Last Transfer From: svm1:svm1_vol3

Last Transfer End Timestamp: 09/24 13:10:04

Progress Last Updated: -

Relationship Capability: 8.2 and above

Lag Time: 0:0:55

Number of Successful Updates: 1

Number of Failed Updates: 0

Number of Successful Resyncs: 0

Number of Failed Resyncs: 0

Number of Successful Breaks: 0

Number of Failed Breaks: 0

Total Transfer Bytes: 212992

Total Transfer Time in Seconds: 5

You want to view your SnapMirros relationship to make sure it is up to date. You issue the snapmirror show Cinstance command. Referring to the exhibit, how long has it been since the last SnapMirror update has successfullyoccurred?

25. Click the Exhibit button on the right.





Referring to the exhibit, which two tiers are monitored in the volume capacity? (Choose two)

26. A client has a 2 TB volume and has enabled the function to automatically delete Snapshot copies in scenarios where capacity will be exceeded. They have set the trigger for this action to the volume | snap_reserve value.

In this scenario, what would trigger this function?

27. Your customer wants to ensure that the SnapMirror relationships are easily managed in a bidirectional, multi-cluster environment.

Which version ofclustered Data ONTAP would you recommend?

28. You have a network outage that affects client access to site A. You need to temporarily reverse the SnapMirror relationship of a volume to serve data from site B.

Which two steps must you perform first? (Choose two.)

29. You have a NAS volume containing 100 GB of data and daily change rate of 10%. You want to keep seven daily Snapshot copies.

What is the minimum size for the volume?

30. On a Windows host, you want to make a consistent database backup of a physical SQL server where the database is on iSCSI-connected LUNs on aclustered Data ONTAP system.

In addition to SnapDrive for Windows, which three NetApp software products should be installed to satisfy this requirement? (Choose three.)

31. You have completed the baseline copy for a new inter-cluster SnapMirror relationship.

How do you verify the baseline without making the destination volume writable?

32. You do not want to impact your ongoing SnapMirror relationship between your primary and secondary site.

Which step must be taken prior to creating a FlexClone at the disaster recovery site?

33. Which attribute does Data ONTAP use the identify Snapshot copies between primary and secondary FlexVol volumes in a SnapVault relationship?

34. You received an alert from OnCommand Unified Manager (OCUM) that a NetApp FlexVol is almost out of space.

Which three actions are available to perform from the OCUM events detail Web page? (Choose three.)

35. You are calculating transfer timefor SnapMirror replication between two NetApp clusters.

Which three factors should be included in your consideration? (Choose three.)

36. You have a VMware VSphere environment with SRM and NetApp SRA fully configured.

Which twostatements are true? (Choose two.)

37. Which three cascaded relationship types are supported? (Choose three.)

38. A previous administrator had configured an external backup system to use node-scoped NDMP for backups, but you want to change this system to use SVM-scoped NDMP.

How do you make this change in ONTAP?

39. A volume has been filled completely by active data and Snapshot copies.

What must you do to make the volume writable again?

40. A customer needs to report on the SnapMirror and SnapVault relationships in their cluster.

Which two tools provide this information? (Choose two.)

41. Beginning with On Command Workflow Automation 3.0, which feature allows you to download and manage your WFA workflow packs from the NetApp resources.

42. You are installing a MetroCluster for clustered Data ONTAP consisting of FAS8080s.

How are the high-availability interconnects cabled?

43. Your customercomplains that their NDMP application can back up data only on a specific NetApp cluster node. You know the customer has recently upgraded all their cluster nodes to clustered Data ONTAP.

What would you recommend to solve their NDMP problems?

44. You are implementing version flexible SnapMirror in a clustered Data ONTAP environment.

Which type of SnapMirror policy would be used?

45. You want to ensure that you are using compatible hardware and software versions with your MetroCluster installation.

Which tool would accomplish this task?

46. You have multiple load-sharing destinations for a volume in a storage virtual machine. The source volume has become unavailable and you want to make one of the destination volumes the new source.

What happens to the original source volume?

47. You are using a MetroCluster configuration.

Which two Fibre Channel switch vendors are supported for backend replication? (Choose two.)

48. You areusing SnapLock for SnapVault to protect Snapshot copies on secondary storage. In ONTAP 9.3, which source aggregate feature is supported in this scenario?

49. In clustered Data ONTAP, you are creating MirrorAndVault XDP relationships between existing primary and secondary volumes. The Snapshot copy policies have already been created and assigned. The peering is already established and functional.

In clustered Data ONTAP, which three actions should be taken? (Choose three.)

50. The primary and secondary clusters are fully configured. You want to set up an inter-cluster SnapMirror relationship.

Which two actions are prerequisite to accomplishing thistask? (Choose two.)

51. Management wants the ability totransfer more data over a low bandwidth network connection.

Which action would satisfy the request?

52. A customer wants to convert some SnapMirror relationships to SnapVault relationships.

How would this be accomplished without creating a new baseline?

53. You want to determine the amount of cold data that can be tiered from a FabricPool-enabled aggregate.

In this scenario, which feature satisfies this requirement?

54. You are asked to protect your customer’s Exchange environment. You deploy SnapCenter 4.1 and the plug-in for Microsoft Exchange Server. While creating the backup policy, you select the Full and Log Backup from the list of supported backup types.

In this scenario, what would the Full and Log Backup type allow you to protect within Exchange?

55. You are deploying a mission-critical business application for a healthcare customer that, according to government policies and regulations, requires zero data loss.

In this scenario, which NetApp solution enables you to set up data replication at a volume level to satisfy your business needs?

56. Your customer wants to implement SVM DR, but the customer is not certain whether the identity-preserve parameter should be enabled. The customer explains that the source and destination clusters are in different network subnets.

In this scenario, which SVM DR solution should the customer use?

57. Click the Exhibit button.





A customer needs to add an additional X91143A card into a FAS9000 to allow mirroring between the production system and the disaster recovery FAS9000 platform. Slots 1, 4, 6, 8, and 9 have cards in them.

Referring to the exhibit, in which slot should you install the card?

58. A customer has developed a new application that uses Oracle with an AFF system to help track all of their shipping trucks around the world. The customer wants to ensure that application-consistent backups are offloaded to the cloud.

In this scenario, which two solutions enable the customer to satisfy these requirements? (Choose two.)

59. A storage administrator is reviewing NAS volume space allocation and is concerned that the Snapshot copies that are recently created to protect the volumes are not storing the data from the volumes. One volume contains over 20 GB of data, although the latest SnapShot copy contains only 198 KB of data.

In this scenario, which statement is true?

60. You need to backup Exchange, MS SQL, and VMware virtual machines with application consistency.

Which tool accomplishes this task?

61. You are creating a SnapVault relationship and have concerns about the available capacity on the destination.

In this scenario, which three factors must you consider when you size the destination volume? (Choose three.)

62. A customer has ONTAP 9.5 clusters running at two nearby locations. The customer wants a zero RPO for one mission-critical volume.

In this scenario, which two NetApp solutions satisfy this requirement while using the existing ONTAP clusters? (Choose two.)

63. Click the Exhibit button.





Referring to the exhibit, what must be performed on nodes aff-01 and aff-02 to allow them to failover and giveback properly?

64. After deploying an ONTAP Select 2 node HA cluster at a remote site, you successfully perform manual takeover and giveback before placing the cluster into production. After the cluster runs in production for a week, you notice that you can no longer perform a manual takeover.

In this scenario, what are two causes of this problem? (Choose two.)

65. A customer has deployed OnCommand Unified Manager and wants to use it to manage their data protection relationships within their NetApp storage infrastructure.

In this scenario, which additional component must be deployed to satisfy this requirement?

66. A customer wants to set up an SVM DR relationship to protect a source SVM that is dedicated for NAS file services. The source and destination clusters are running ONTAP 9.5.

In this scenario, which application accomplishes this task?

67. Click the Exhibit button.





Your customer wants to protect a volume and replicate it to a secondary volume. The customer has tried to configure this relationship using OnCommand System Manager. Upon reviewing this newly configured relationship, you discover that the configuration does not satisfy the customer’s stated requirements.

Referring to the exhibit, what should you do to ensure that the volume is protected?

68. ) the database SnapVault status.

In this scenario, which report type satisfies the requirements?

69. Which two configurations would be used to protect volumes in a production ONTAP system at two different disaster recovery (DR) locations? (Choose two.)

70. Click the Exhibit button.





Referring to the exhibit, what two Search Criteria check boxes need to be used to provide a supported solution for protecting Windows Server 2019 DCE 64-bit, x64 host using local NetApp LUNs with SnapCenter Server 4.1.1? (Choose two.)

71. You want to set up an important management solution that must comply with FIPS 140-2. The solution should support a multi-clusters environment and should provide centralized management of the encryption keys.

In this scenario, which solution accomplishes the task?

72. You are monitoring data protection relationships of type XDR using OnCommand System Manager running ONTAP 9.5. In the GUI, you click Protection -> Volume Relationships.

In this scenario, which status in the Relationship State field must be displayed to ensure that the relationships are working as expected?

73. A customer has application data corruption on a LUN that is in a volume with six other data LUNs. The customer needs to restore the corrupted LUN from a Snapshot copy without affecting the other six LUNs.

Which process would accomplish this task?

74. You have an environment with multiple database servers that are performing scheduled nightly dumps. These dumps vary in both the time to complete and the size of data produced. You need to ensure that there is always enough room in the volume for the data and that a nightly SnapMirror update does not take place until the database dump process is complete.

In this scenario, which NetApp tool ensures that this process is completed every night?

75. A customer is using SnapMirror to replicate their data to a remote site. They notice that storage efficiency is nor preserved, and the amount of data at the destination is higher than expected.

In this scenario, which configuration in the destination volume would cause this issue?

76. A customer wants to set up SNMP to monitor their ONTAP platforms. Because of security reasons, they need strong authentication and data encryption?

In this scenario, which SNMP version satisfies these requirements?

77. Click the Exhibit button.





Your customer has recently implemented a FabricPool solution that uses the default configuration. They notice that no data has moved to the cloud tier. Your customer is concerned that FabricPool might not be functioning properly.

Referring to the exhibit, what is causing the problem?

78. Data on an AFF system is replicated using SnapMirror to a FAS system that is configured

with NL-SAS-based storage.

In this scenario, which storage efficiency is lost on the SnapMirror destination?

79. Which two NetApp technologies allow for synchronous replication of data between two remote sites? (Choose two.)

80. You recently set up a SnapMirror relationship with a daily update schedule. You want to verify that the updates are being performed daily.

Which two actions inside OnCommand System Manager would you ensure that the SnapMirror transfers are occurring daily? (Choose two.)

81. When you configure a SnapLock feature, where should the ComplianceClock be initialized?

82. Which two tools would you use to verify that an Oracle database has an application-consistent snapshot taken? (Choose two.)

83. Click the Exhibit button.





Referring to the exhibit, which two statements are true? (Choose two.)

84. You are creating daily SnapVault backups of a NAS volume that contains the data for your business critical application. You discover that corruption began two weeks ago on the data on that volume.

In this scenario, which statement is true?